That novel and other works, including The Hemingway Hoax (1991) and Forever Peace (1997), have won science fiction awards, including the Hugo Award and Nebula Award. He is best known for his novel The Forever War (1974).

Inspired by Haldeman's experience in the Vietnam War, it has been seen as a critical work of anti-war SF. Joe William Haldeman (born June 9, 1943) is an American science fiction author. Winner of the Nebula, Locus and Hugo awards, The Forever War was the first title selected for the SF Masterworks series when it launched in 1999. Relativity means that for every few months' tour of duty centuries have passed on Earth, isolating the combatants ever more from the world for whose future they are fighting. The protagonist is William Mandella, a student who is drafted into an elite military task force without his consent and shipped off to war against the. The Forever War and Forever Peace both received the Hugo 1 2 and Nebula 2 3 Awards for Best Novel. Not all of them take place in the same future universe. Private William Mandella is a reluctant hero in an interstellar war against an unknowable and unconquerable alien enemy.īut his greatest test will be when he returns home. The Forever War series is a series of science fiction novels by Joe Haldeman.

It won the Nebula Award in 1975 and the Hugo and Locus awards in 1976. One of the very best must-read SF novels of all time. The Forever War (1974) is a military science fiction novel by American author Joe Haldeman, telling the contemplative story about human soldiers fighting an interstellar war against an alien civilization known as the Taurans. Military science fiction novel by American author Joe Haldeman, telling the contemplative story about human soldiers fighting an interstellar war against an.

The Forever War by Joe Haldeman